Editing Open Mind Common Sense (section)

== History ==

The project was the brainchild of [[Marvin Minsky]], Push Singh, [[Catherine Havasi]], and others. Development work began in September 1999, and the project opened to the Internet a year later. Havasi described it in her dissertation as "an attempt to ... harness some of the distributed human computing power of the Internet, an idea which was then only in its early stages."<ref name="havasi-thesis"/> The original OMCS was influenced by the website [[Everything2]] and its predecessor, and presents a minimalist interface that is inspired by [[Google]].

Push Singh would have become a professor at the [[MIT Media Lab]] and lead the Common Sense Computing group in 2007, but committed suicide on February 28, 2006.<ref name="singh-obituary" />

The project is currently run by the Digital Intuition Group at the MIT Media Lab under Catherine Havasi.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}}